Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 167, 26 May 1917 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. MAY 26. 1917

ECHOES . f H y HENRY 'McFARLONE neWsy news a'$ FICTION

Yesterday evening I went to the May! Musical Festival. I sat In a row tabout half way down on the left aide. Right in front of me -sat a lady. Next to her sat about three more ladies, each with a hat big enough to make a small dish pan, and trimmed up My! I thought I was looking Into a forest of cotton flowers and parrot feathers. Of .course I'm an American, so it was very interesting to see all these wQndf rful sights while I haT my soul ; uplifted " with the beautiful niusic, issuing from the base' vile (or vile bass) and other melodious instruments. That and the bassoon always appeal to me, somehow. I guess there U something rather deep and melancholy in my nature those sweet sounds always make me; so drowsy. In fact, once I almost dosed off. But along about this time one of the ladies in front of me showed Bigns.or. exploding. VDear, dear, how hot it is in here. I :giiess I'll take my hat off I wished she'd have taken it off ,long ago, because the feather on it continually ran into my nose, causing it to itch something terrible. She started but alas, she must haye remembered that her hair wasn't combed. She leaned over to her companion on the right and sald,V"l8 anybody watching us?" , : "ftp," said her companion wasn't that an insult? "Then I'll take It off. but 5 just think. It cost six dollars." Anj Irishman behind me said to a neit door Swede, "Got a chew? That 5 piece they're playing makes me. sea sick." And after that , was all over, a lady tp my right said to her loving hubbr, "Do you see that lady over therewith that green plume?" "Yea." says he, enthusiastic like. "She has a nofIA Ilka mtiain Sha'o great uncle's wife, don you think?" Well about this time the thing came to an end. J rushed with many other to the exit and came into a Jam mercy! People 'that went In American came out a Russian. ;.' I was Just about to the doorway when a man to the right of my left elbow shouted, "I dropped a dime! Save It. please!" Everybody started to hunt that dime.''- ' I hunted too till I found It thon T tried to get out. Just as I got to the doorway one man yelled, "Stop thieves" I run all the way home.. The. next morning I found out that a pickpocket hadrobbed a man of 3c: and an automobile washernobody knows it but that fellow, the thief and you--and I. Don't tell it please, it's a secretNext week I'm going to give a bug's eye view of my life. Please don't 'miss this it may be important;, . , , - - r" " ' :-' , . ;' Olfl' Ta'ilr Ttil! wau a fniTOilno. malt His face was brown as his arms were tan, He worked In his fields at broad day, " At night he slept in the barn on hay, Hefhbed at the corn and planted Wheat, And took care of things good to eat, He'd feed the horses and milk the And then he'd Bleep ; In the old hay mow. 3 In tfiej bright morning fie'd arouse . And go to the pasture for the cows i-i it u lih: ii uc u i tu a iiuii;ijr iiug For, kindling wood he'd chop a log And then he'd work hard all day . At hoping beans and stacking hay; An" he'd keep this up I know not how '..,"' But.a night he'd go ' , , .rfTo the old hay mow. i PRINTER'S PI

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HAPPY MESSENGER

Hello, Kids Gee, I ain't mad at I'm just happy all the time and you see mo. It makes other people I've got one of the best jobs a kid would want I'm a messengerwell, it's a whole lot bettet than lots of kids are doing. Ma says, "it keeps me out of mischief, and that's why I am bo happy all the time." Ma thinks I'm an angel. You ought to see some of the fights us kids get into. We get pretty reckless somelimes, but honestly, we never stay mad at each other very long at a time. I guess kids are made to fight, though we fight among ourselves when kids, and when we grow up, we go to war and fight there too. Gee, I wish I was a man now, so I could go to war. One day I remember when I was fixing my bicycle a great big overgrown kid came along and pushed me into a big mud puddle, just because he wanted to pick a fight out of me. I was mad too, but he was a whole lot bigger than me and I was scared to fight him. Just then my best pal,

Jimmle came around the corner, and he saw I was all over mud and said, "Whot's de madder Jonesy?" Oh," I wish you could have seen Jimmie's eyas, he was so mad he couldn't see straight Jimmie is a whole lot bigger'n me, and he just picked the big kid up and give him an awful shaking, and when he got loose just run away like everything. Jimmie, is a messenger too and we don't have very much time to run around, 'cause we got a base ball club, and when we ain't working we arc playing ball or swimming. We got one of the best kid teams in the world, Jimmie says. The other day our bunch played some big kids from the west aide and we beat them with a score of six to nothing. It was a hot game, you see we had a gang of our messengers to come out to the game and root for us; and guess the boys made bo much noise it got the big kids all excited and they couldn't play very well. The fellers made so much noise at the game that the neighbors said, "next time they were going to send for the police." Us kids are slick we sneak off swimming to the creek and our mothers don't know where we are half the time. Me and Jimmie always get our hair clipped off close to our heads every summer, bo we can fool our mothers and won't have to go home with our hair wet. I believe ma suspects we have been into mischief sometimes, but she don't say anything, 'cause she likes Jimmie and me! She says. "Jimmie and me are just like brothers and when I am with him, she don't worry at all 'cause Jimmie is bigger'n me." " i Well, the boss has called me to come and take out some messages, and I hope all you Junior Customers have a good time this summer and don't forget to smile and make people happy and Jimmie and me will be with you in school next year. Jonesy, the Messenger.

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUESTIONS. 1. Savannah. 2. Boston Massacre by British Troops. 3. Montreal. 4. France. 5. Vacuum. 6. Yes. Nine gunners missing. 7. 1,600,000 tons were sunk during February and March. 8. 1,000,000 tons of English mer r cv r u V4'Wk " M

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BOY WRITES STORY

nobody. have a smile on my face any time happy too. when they see me smile. chant ships were lost. Joy Bailey. GIRLS CLEAN UP YARD Dear Aunt Molly: ts. I helped clean the yard so did Blanche help me too.- We pick up paper and sticks. We put them in the basket. Zenobia help me too. She throw stones on "the sidewalk. Ruth Veregge, 2A Grade, Whitewater School.

"JONESY" SJ

IMPERIAL CABINET OF ABYSSINIA

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grandfather, the lateKlng Menelik, claimed descent from King Solomon.

ORGAN GRINDER LEAVES; FOUND BUSINESS DULL Many children In town were delighted to find that an organ grinder with his monkey was here the first part of the week. The monkey was an unusually bright little fellow and the man said his name was Billy. One of his little tricks was to play on a pair of tiny little brass cymbals.

This organ grinder lives in Chi cago, and because he found bus! ness so dull here In Richmond, he said he could not afford to stay but a few days. He came over to. this country eleven years agO; but did not enter the monkey business un til about three years later. ' The monkeys are not brought over from Europe, as most people suppose, but are bought by the organ men here in America, usually in New York or Chicago. . Then the , monkeys must ' be trained, just as a dog or elephant must be; and the man said that it is most important always to be kind to your monkey if you want tq teach him any tricks. This man carried "Billy" around in a wnn velvet sack which he wore under his coat. And as for food, he said he would give Billy anything he wanted,' from cheese and macaroni to bananas, but sometimes the monkey only wanted grass. On the whole, the organ man seemed' to think the organ business was all right, because on good days he could easily make four or five dollars; but now days he said even the children are saving their pennies, and so he was going back to his home in Chicago. Snake in 13 Pieces Became 13 Stars in Flag When the early settlers first came to what is now the United States, they settled in 13 different colonies. They did not know whether to unite and be one country or be 13 different colonies. Each Colony had a flag. The flag for one colony was white with the picture of a snake on it. The snake was cut into 13 pieces. The motto for the flag was "United we stand, divided we fall." The colonists thought it best to unite, so they could fight England and become a free country, so they united and declared war against England. They fought bravely and became free. It was decided the country was to be called the United States. A committee was appointed by Congress to get a flag. They put 7 red and 6 white stripes with a field of blue in the left hand corner with 13 stars in the field of blue. Each star represented a state, as the snake in 13 pieces had done before. . Since then 35 states have been admitted to the United States and 35 more stars added to the field of blue, making 48 ; stars. Geneva Schneider, 6 A grade, Sevastopol school. Empire of the north of Africa.

BOYS PLAN TO HIKE FIFTY-SIX MILES TO Y. MX. A. CAMP The boy scouts of troop 2 are planning to hike the 56 miles down to the Y. M. C. A. summer camp at Flat Rock. To do this they are each going to earn two dollars during next week, both by making money and using the old proverb "A penny saved is a penny earned," and with this money, each of the four patrols will buy their own tent. i'' Then the boys are going to make a trak cart, something like- the ones used in the army, and take their provisions and tents .which they will use along the way. down to camp in this cart. The plan now is for the boy, under their assistant scout master, Mr. Brammer, to leave Richmond, Saturday, June 9, and reach-Cambridge City by night, camping there, and staying there long enough to go to Sunday School -and church in that city. Sunday afternoon they are to make the distance froai Cambridge to Milton, make camp and go to church in the evening there. Monday they are to reach Connersville and camp there for the night, Tuesday they are tq make Rushville, and Wednesday morning they are to make the final 9 miles down to Flat Rock. . -I

A WONDERFUL CASKET A long time ago near the edge of a forest lived a poor widow and her daughter One day the girl said she would pick some berries to sell In a nearby . town. So she took her basket and -went out into the woods. one picKea 1111 noon ana naa . hardly enough berries to fill the hrttrm of hor hnRlrof Almost discouraged she said they would starve if she didn't get some berries. There was not another loaf of bread In the house. Now the lit-, tie girl did not know she was near, the. home of two little brownies.,' Nor did she know one was watchiug her and heard what she said. The brownie said It was a good chance to help her. So. he said some magic words and changed into an old man and came out from behind the tree , and said, "Little girl, I am hungry, will you give me some berries.", She put her hand into the basket. But drew it out again and said "We have nothing to eat at home."' The old man was about to go when ' she said, "Here, take them all. I : would rather die of hunger than to be selfish." ' . The brownie did not eat, but' touched a tree ..,stump. It immed-'-lately turned into a golden casket The widow and Tier daughter lived In poverty no more for when? ever they opened the lid of the. casket they could get whatever they wished The moral of thia ; story is never be selfish or unkind. Ernest Sturgis, Age 12, 5A Grade, Whitewater School. AMERICAN SAIT.HRS GIVE WAY TO BOYS, i The navy recruiting officer wh' was In Richmond last week , told ' many Interesting stories about hia travels over the world. But he said . that tha nnlv Hmn In l.in'. 1 1 r . 1. n ' " " v mv. v.. j niu -j .it mo lite 1 1 1 a I. he had seen American sailors giving way to boys was once in Francel'"! It was a beautiful morning in spring, several years ago when they,',1) had landed and were marchingv intcj.Brest to be reviewed at some im portant. occasion, when suddenly '" thev heard a terrible th'i.nrlprlner V noise as of some huge machine; clat-" ; tering away down the street right,, towards them, and just beyond a'i near bend in the road. . Quickly, the officer gave com-; - - " . v . v. j . v ... . plenty of room for the great power- , f ul engine or whatever it was, and." Just as it had been done, around the I'inivu uujra, lauuig wuu .lUfir wooden shoes on. ,. '.' BOY SCOUTS HELP CITY OFFICIALS Last Saturday the Boy Scouta .were , busy. In the morning they helped the city officials with the municipal vegetables and In the afternoon they distributed advertisements for the local recruiting officer. Everybody now is wantimr to do. something for the Red Cross. Even base ball games will be played for lta benefit between Harvard and Yale. .